At H-P, Judgment Goes by the Board

By

Rolfe Winkler

Nov. 26, 2012 4:30 p.m. ET

More than two people from Hewlett-Packard were responsible for the disastrous Autonomy acquisition, never mind what Chief Executive Meg Whitman says.

Ms. Whitman would like investors to believe that only her predecessor, Leo Apotheker, and former strategy chief Shane Robison really deserve blame for the Autonomy deal. Conveniently, both are already gone. Furthermore, H-P says that no one at the company had any inkling about alleged...